Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc887c148eedec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 822d48c32808ec92ac217f50ad3140d8 SHA-1: a9767b8d6ac18cd9ed3b2ed382a5c741d709bc38 SHA-256: 1bc887c148eedec587e55f0a1d402555b44323a25d3546047880e04ef4f9b409
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a link farm or redirection attack designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body contains garbled text along with the target URL, indicating a potential attempt to obscure the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious activity observed is the redirection via the embedded URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=nursery+rhymes+songs+list In PDF document text
    • http://sumid.yudancearts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453060/boxosogexorewoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.musicboosterswinters.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683080/8574613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surisat.michellelewisphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438110/revivudidenoz_kuzuzefejaluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9322/0775/files/varodubizubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0417/4233/files/81003731711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0702/5060/files/new_us_army_dress_uniform_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/hands_on_automated_machine_learning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9390/0958/files/64398007517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0000/2717/files/english_phrases_for_daily_use.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7348/6496/files/8164344508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9019/8180/files/handwriting_alphabet_practice_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5463/5937/files/21805727619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9910/3136/files/14158768525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2664/4125/files/munezakilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/73382405003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7344/5792/files/catalogo_bendix_zen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1335/6189/files/93496634922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7639/4901/files/kevarazupupibezokosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000074fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74FA 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 5afa3ee3c369efe99a9e2f77d60867b30a20af0183245c4c346f0715bed7a083
font_01_sfnt_off0000854f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x854F 1800 bytes
SHA-256: daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
font_02_sfnt_off00008ddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DDD 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 95184c4ff65945a6f359f4e226b25520309a84481cf2f96a5d64206bdaf4e211
font_03_sfnt_off0000b238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB238 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e